Decoration in Monongahela sparks memories of long ago

By Michael Richter

mrichter@yourmvi.com

On Monongahela’s Merry and Bright Night, a Christmas decoration made during the Eisenhower administration was hung from a utility pole outside of the Longwell House. Several of the decorations — aluminum stars with 20 lights on either side — lined Monongahela’s Main Street in Decembers from 1959 until sometime in the 1970s, according to the Monongahela Area Historical Society. 

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